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Religious freedom is a farce, like states' rights, to maintain a social hierarchy and put down unpopular groups. These people are viscerally prejudiced and think they can get away with it by wrapping themselves in religious pretext.

If the law passes, they're right...

That we are capable only of being what we are, remains our unforgivable sin.
- Gene Wolfe

Re: KY Trying to Pass a Bill That Would Make LGBT Protections Meaningless

The proposed KY law sounds like an anti-gay Cincinnati city law that was in place from 1993 to 2004.

For 11 years, the City of Cincinnati (just across the river from KY) had in force a law which made it illegal for anyone to claim discrimination on the basis of sexuality. In other words, anyone was free to fire gays from a job, deny service, refuse housing, etc. Gays had no recourse to acts of discrimination because sexuality could not be used as a basis for a claim of discrimination.

The law was finally repealed in 2004, when we got a Democratic mayor. Many local businesses contributed to the repeal effort, as they regarded hatred as a poor environment for commerce.

There is a video on YouTube about how gay rights activists managed to get the law repealed:

Re: KY Trying to Pass a Bill That Would Make LGBT Protections Meaningless

No surprise the Roman church is backing this -- they still think they ought to be in charge of government as well as church. To them, and most denominations descended from Puritans, religious freedom means the freedom to make their religion higher than any other.

It's tragic, since Jesus flat out told His followers to never seek temporal/secular power.

"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "

What religious people need to realize is that under the law they don't have a religious right to discriminate. Just because their religion mandates discrimination and hatred of certain people does not mean that legally they can enforce this discrimination as the discriminated parties have rights too. What Christians and Muslims need to realize is that intolerance and discrimination should never be tolerated and they have no right to deny someone else equal rights and protections just because their backwards religion says so.